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international / history and heritage Monday September 08, 2008 - 17:36 by Tara Tara Tara   text 22 comments (last - tuesday november 18, 2008 - 18:44)   image 31 images
Here is how the Valley looks now, her Sacred Sites razed and desecrated , replaced by concrete and tar. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday September 08, 2008 - 12:50 by gegarith   text 4 comments (last - monday september 08, 2008 - 16:17)
Irish Embassy in Berlin targeted in solidarity with those fighting against Rossport pipeline. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Monday September 08, 2008 - 11:28 by Bernie Wright
Detention on remand terminated for all animal activists. (3/9)
Today the senior public prosecutor surprised in Vienna with a press statement: All 9 remaining animal rights prisoners will be released immediately.
Meanwhile the prisoners are already set free. They were received at the prison gates by family members, acquaintances and friends.
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national / politics / elections Monday September 08, 2008 - 01:09 by Pynchon   text 14 comments (last - wednesday september 10, 2008 - 16:05)   image 17 images
Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan joined the Green Team, a group of Green Party activists at the Electric Picnic recently to hand out postcards advertising the party.

They also gave thousands of nuts to raise awareness about the upcoming local and European elections. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday September 07, 2008 - 21:59 by BATU   text 7 comments (last - thursday september 18, 2008 - 12:06)   video 1 video file
BREAKING NEWS 8.30pm - 7th September 2008

BATU MEMBERS OCCUPY UNION HEAD QUARTERS

At 7pm this evening twenty members of the Building and Allied Trades' Union (BATU) occupied the union's head office at 13 Blessington Street, Dublin 7. The members, bricklayers and carpenters, said they are taking their building back as they have no confidence in the present leadership. They are joined outside the outside by many other members who are ensuring they have both support and provisions.
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dublin / history and heritage Sunday September 07, 2008 - 21:24 by TaraWatch   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 09, 2008 - 16:43)   image 3 images
Members of TaraWatch and other groups will sell pieces of coal , dressed as 'fat- cats', tomorrow outside the Green party offices on Suffolk Street at noon tomorrow. The coal will signify the Green's preference for creating new taxes, to penalise carbon use, instead of seeking cuts in spending on carbon producing infrastructure like tolled motorways, in the upcoming Budget, like their own policy documents call for.

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dublin / environment Saturday September 06, 2008 - 16:04 by Andrew   text 13 comments (last - tuesday september 09, 2008 - 12:49)   image 8 images
About 30 people turned up at lunchtime today to distribute leaflets with news of the Irish Navy's attacks on Shell to Sea activists and the local community of Erris. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 06, 2008 - 10:27 by required reading   text 3 comments (last - tuesday september 09, 2008 - 11:50)
After a hungerstrike which lasted 76 days, the Anarchist prisoner Amadeu Casellas won his demands for the privileges he had been denied, supervised freedom under the 3rdº degree, which iwill allow him two 48 hour passes followed by work outside of prison only to return to sleep.

The reports publicised by the Catalan ministry of Justice early yesterday evening that he had abandoned his protest were finally qualified at 10pm last night by his lawyer that he had in fact won his demands & that the solidarity campaign will continue to highlight his case with protest actions today to support a visit by his mother & a parliamentary representative. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / animal rights Friday September 05, 2008 - 21:12 by ARAN   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 06, 2008 - 12:59)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
This year we are holding our biggest event for the animals in our ten year history and we want you to be there with us. World Animal Week is celebrated during October 1st to the 7th and during this important week here in Ireland Animal Rights Action Network are coordinating our largest peaceful rally ever and we’re expecting hundreds of people and many respected groups to turn out in force for the animals and be a united voice, so please mark your diaries for our most important event of ever! Wherever you live in Ireland - north or south we’ll need you with us on October 5th in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday September 05, 2008 - 21:02 by Contaminated Crow
Victory in Mayo, defeats in Tipperary and conflicts in Offaly and Roscommon ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday September 05, 2008 - 17:15 by Madam K   text 7 comments (last - wednesday september 10, 2008 - 09:17)   video 1 video file
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 05, 2008 - 14:49 by S2Ser   text 30 comments (last - tuesday september 09, 2008 - 20:52)   image 1 image
A callout has come from Rossport for supporters around the country to mobilise to Rossport tonight or very early tomorrow morning in preparation for a struggle to stop Shell tomorrow. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Thursday September 04, 2008 - 23:57 by r   text 2 comments (last - monday september 08, 2008 - 19:01)   image 1 image
Gardaí announced tonight that they had made eight arrests on Glengad beach earlier this evening (Thursday September 4th).

Once again, it is not clear if the protesters have been arrested or simply "detained" under the public order act.

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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 23:41 by Belfast WSM   text 5 comments (last - sunday september 07, 2008 - 06:20)   image 3 images
Despite the bad weather and the protest being organised at short notice (within a day) as well as a passing interest from the PSNI, the Belfast branch of the WSM, Anarchist Black Cross joined others outside Belfast City Hall this evening as part of the growing national and international campaign. In solidarity with Amadeu Casellas who is now entering his 73rd day on hunger strike; and it opposition to his continued political incarceration and persecution by the Spanish state because of his anarchist beliefs. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 20:31 by FSB!   text 10 comments (last - saturday september 06, 2008 - 11:38)   image 10 images
Report and photos from this morning’s blockade of the Shell compound in Glengad, Erris, Co. Mayo, and the Shell to Sea Flotilla’s second visit to Shell War-Boat Orla which left Broadhaven Bay this afternoon. Also there is confirmation of the arrival of a second Shell War-Boat, the Aoife. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 17:28 by cockleshell hero   text 18 comments (last - saturday september 06, 2008 - 15:28)   image 1 image
Anothe Irish Naval Service warship arrived off the Mayo Coast this afternoon. Given the small sizse of the Irish navy, the priority which is being put on this operation is alarming. As recent events have shown, the Irish coast is often used by criminals importing large quantities of drugs into the country fro further export to Europe, and the navy is supposed to be an impotant line of defence against this.

Instead two ships ae being used to intimidate the local population of a small part of the west coast, to discourage protests against Shell. ... read full story / add a comment
CIA-linked planes like this one are regular visitors to Shannon
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 09:30 by John Lannon   image 1 image
A UK-based human rights organisation have asked the Irish government for information on two specific rendition flights that stopped in Shannon. The first was a flight on July 22nd, 2002 which rendered Binyam Mohamed to torture in Morocco. The second stopped in Shannon on September 17th, 2004, en route to rendering Mr Mohammed from Rabat, Morocco to Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Do It Yourself!
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 00:58 by Peint Fliuch   text 8 comments (last - friday september 05, 2008 - 18:54)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Over the past number of weeks, Ógra Shinn Féin have initiated a campaign to paint northern post boxes back to their rightful shade of green.

Over 100 postboxes are now 'greened', with the youth movement claiming that many nationally minded young people have joined the campaign since it was launched. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 00:54 by Students   text 7 comments (last - saturday september 27, 2008 - 00:56)
More than 50 students stormed the gates of the Department of Education in Dublin this afternoon, in protest against any reintroduction of third level fees. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 01, 2008 - 14:31 by Breandán   text 1 comment (last - monday september 01, 2008 - 18:21)
Sat. Aug 30, 2008. Saint Paul, Minnesota Police Department raided a home at 951 Iglehart Avenue at gunpoint. The lawyers and journalists who were in target of the raid include a contributing photojournalist with "Democracy Now", whose host Amy Goodman appears in a video clip jumping a fence to question police officers. This is part of a series of police actions on the eve of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.

After several hours, all those detained were released. No arrests. No property was seized as result of the search warrant. The clip ends with an interview with homeowner Mike Whalen. At the start of the clip, a neighbor shouts to the media and onlookers that they could all come into her backyard to see the detained people held in the adjacent backyard.

Some video footage of the police raid here http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/647/ ... read full story / add a comment
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